samba - Feb 2020 - Issue compiling Samba 4.11.6 with GNUTLS 3.6.12 (Not standard location)

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 18:38 +0000, Rowland penny via samba
wrote:
> > Is there a way to solve this build issue with Samba 4.11.6?
> > 
> Not sure, but even if you can, you cannot use it without python3
> 
> Rowland
G'Day Rowland,

If the OS only needs to build Samba for a fileserver or a client
library then the python3 issue doesn't come up, we still allow a build
of those components as long as --disable-python is set.

Andrew Bartlett
-- 
Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba

On 28/02/2020 18:54, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 18:38 +0000, Rowland penny via samba wrote:
>>> Is there a way to solve this build issue with Samba 4.11.6?
>>>
>> Not sure, but even if you can, you cannot use it without python3
>>
>> Rowland
> G'Day Rowland,
>
> If the OS only needs to build Samba for a fileserver or a client
> library then the python3 issue doesn't come up, we still allow a build
> of those components as long as --disable-python is set.
>
> Andrew Bartlett
Hi Andrew, at no point does the OP state that he has set 
--disable-python, so it is reasonable to think he wants to build Samba 
to use it as a DC.

If he does want to run Samba as a DC, then he will have problems. It 
says here:

https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_4.11_Features_added/changed

Under the heading: REMOVED FEATURES

(trimmed to the salient points):

Python2 support
Samba 4.11 will not have any runtime support for Python 2.

Except for this specific build-time use of python2, Samba now requires 
Python 3.4 as a minimum.

So, by my reading, unless you do build Samba 4.11.x with 
--disable-python, you will not be able to run it satisfactorily as a DC 
without python3

As the OP already has 4.10.x, there isn't much point in building Samba 
4.11.x just to use it as a fileserver.

Rowland

On Fri, 2020-02-28 at 19:06 +0000, Rowland penny via samba
wrote:
> So, by my reading, unless you do build Samba 4.11.x with 
> --disable-python, you will not be able to run it satisfactorily as a DC 
> without python3
To be clear:

git checkout origin/v4-11-test && PYTHON=python2 ./configure 

Checking for program 'python3'  : /usr/bin/python3 
Checking for python version >= 3.4.0 : 2.7.17 
The python version is too old, expecting (3, 4, 0)
(complete log in /home/abartlet/samba/bin/config.log)


git checkout origin/v4-11-test && PYTHON=python2 ./configure
--disable-python

Gives:
--disable-python requires --without-ad-dc

git checkout origin/v4-11-test && PYTHON=python2 ./configure
--disable-python --without-ad-dc

Gives:
'configure' finished successfully (1m10.383s)

So, this was never about Samba as an AD DC (a feature fond to my heart).

Andrew Bartlett

-- 
Andrew Bartlett                       http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team  http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Catalyst IT          http://catalyst.net.nz/services/samba